"Love is a friendship set to music."
-Joseph Campbell
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"Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.“
-Joseph Campbell
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"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature."
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"Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths."
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"I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave."
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"What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else."
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"When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity."
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